On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 02:58:50PM +0100, René Bolldorf wrote:
> The sob tag is only for persons that are involved in the development
> of the patch.
>
> Acked-by: Rene Bolldorf <xsecute@googlemail.com>
Since the header file in question was taken from a patch that you had
signed off, it would have been acceptable for Gábor to add a SoB line
for you to this patch in addition to his own.
Documentation/SubmittinPatches defines the semantics of SoB as:
< ------------ snip snap snop ----------- >
Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1
By making a contribution to this project, I certify that:
(a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me and I
have the right to submit it under the open source license
indicated in the file; or
(b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best
of my knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open source
license and I have the right under that license to submit that
work with modifications, whether created in whole or in part
by me, under the same open source license (unless I am
permitted to submit under a different license), as indicated
in the file; or
(c) The contribution was provided directly to me by some other
person who certified (a), (b) or (c) and I have not modified
it.
(d) I understand and agree that this project and the contribution
are public and that a record of the contribution (including all
personal information I submit with it, including my sign-off) is
maintained indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with
this project or the open source license(s) involved.
then you just add a line saying
Signed-off-by: Random J Developer <random@developer.example.org>
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I'm normally accept non-trivial patches with just a single SoB line though
I might ask for the original author(s)' SoB in some cases or might just
complain missing SoBs and apply a patch anyway if it's trivial which means
like 10 lines of not quite rocket science content.
Ralf